Date   : Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:22:08 +0100
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: Issue 4 freezes in old age

> Actually, this fault sounds *exactly* like what happens to PC
> motherboards when the electrolytic caps go bad. I've repaired quite a
> few of these - all of them have been obviously faulty though, where
> the caps near the processor socket have bulged outwards at the top and
> visibly leaked.
> 
> I'd just replace all the electrolytics on the motherboard.

Were I an electronicky person, I could do that :) Though none of the
capacitors seem obviously broken.

I just wonder if there's a specific cause for this, since it's always the
*same* problem. Not that I'd be able to fix it even if I did know, but at
least I'd finally know what's up with them.